SIL and PL—Functional Safety from Pepperl+Fuchs

Several hundred products with a SIL/PL assessment, free tools, and brochures in one place: the "Functional Safety Hub" is your starting point when you have to implement safety functions.

Functional Safety for Your Applications

Technical equipment can pose a safety risk so dangerous that people should not be exposed to the equipment. In such cases, the relevant risks must be reduced to meet the need for safe operation.

As the market leaders for electrical functional safety components, Pepperl+Fuchs helps you fulfill the necessary standards. Whether you are looking for a SIL 3 rated interface module or a PL e rated sensor: our comprehensive portfolio holds the answer.

What's more: we not only supply you with components and solutions, but additional tools and knowledge on functional safety. On this webpage, download SISTEMA libraries, read an interesting interview with our in-house functional safety experts, or get your free digital company of our "Compendium Functional Safety". This 50 pages document gives you valuable information and insights for your daily work.

Widest safety portfolio on the market

With more than 700 SIL/PL assessed devices from a single source, Pepperl+Fuchs offers you an abundance of options—ensuring that you always get the best solution for your individual application.

Knowledge is the key

For decades, Pepperl+Fuchs has been a driving force in industrial automation. Our in-depth understanding of functional safety norms and regulations is the basis for trusted safety components.

Certified quality

Our internal functional safety management system has beencertified by exida as meeting the requirements for Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3). A detailed audit has confirmed our ability to manufacture in accordance with IEC 61508.

Select Your Product

An assessment of a safety relevant system is performed easier if the risk of failure of the relevant components is already known. For that purpose, Pepperl+Fuchs offers a large number of products with a SIL/PL assessment.

On this site, choose from various selection criteria like safety integrity level, performance level, device function, and signal type to quickly find the SIL/PL assessed device that you are looking for.

Literature and Tools

Download the Functional Safety Compendium!

In our downloadable compendium on functional safety, we clarify the concepts and definitions that are necessary to reduce risks to a tolerable level. The compendium explains the specific standards and definitions of hazards and methods of risk analysis.

Learn how you can successfully implement safety equipment and follow us through a hands-on case study using a simplified example for an overfill prevention system. The compendium is rounded out by a glossary and list of abbreviations that helps you to quickly reference safety terminology whenever you need it.

Get to Know the Experts

Extensive in-house expertise has been vital to Pepperl+Fuchs leadership in functional safety components. In this interview in our digital magazine "amplify", Head of Functional Safety Michael Kindermann, Functional Safety Manager Hasan Sülük, and Manager of Training and Committee Work Dr. Andreas Hildebrandt discuss their day-to-day work, the current standards with which their products must comply, and methods for transferring knowledge.

Pepperl+Fuchs is a leading developer and manufacturer of electronic sensors and components for the global automation market. Continuous innovation, enduring quality, and steady growth guarantees continued success, since more than 70 years. Pepperl+Fuchs employs 6,200 people worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in Germany, USA, Singapore, Hungary, Indonesia and Vietnam, most of them ISO 9001 certified.